win11 cannot activate and install specific updates

Question

The computer is a M2 macbookpro, and I installed a virtual machine with Parallels desktop for Win11 home, and now I am having problems activating and installing updates to the virtual machine. I have tried deleting the contents of the update folder, updating troubleshooting, and downloading patches from Microsoft alone, but all have failed. The activation also shows 100%, and after reboot it rolls back saying the feature update failed.

the attached screenshot is the updating error:

installation error: 0x800f081f
both 2 updates cannot be installed

Answer 1

Hello,

Please run Windows Update troubleshooter from Settings app > System > Troubleshoot > Additional troubleshooters. See if it works.

If that doesn't work, try this:

Open administrative Command Prompt and type following commands one-by-one followed by Enter key.

net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver
Ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
Ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old
net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver

Close Command Prompt and see if Windows Updates works then.

Let us know if this helps!